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Research Databases
For your convenience, we have prepared lists of suggested databases for specific subjects, which you can choose from the drop-down menu below:
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database with full text for thousands of journals, and citation information for thousands more.
Art Therapy
The official journal of the American Art Therapy Association. Its purpose is to advance the understanding of how visual art functions in the treatment, education, development, and enrichment of people.
ArticleFirst
Contains citations to articles on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities and popular culture. Use this database to place an Interlibrary Loan for an article.
Arts in Psychotherapy
This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles (including illustrations) by art, dance/movement, drama, music and poetry psychotherapists, as well as psychiatrists, psychologists and creative arts therapists, that reflect the theory and practice of these disciplines.
Association of Transpersonal Psychology Members Only Resources
Access to archives of all 35 years of the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, as well as audio archives of ATP conference presentations and a members networking directory.
ATLA religion database with ATLASerials
Collection of major religious and theology journals selected by religion scholars in the United States. Full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups are included.
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Buddhist Studies Review
Peer-reviewed articles on any aspect of Buddhism, covering the different cultural areas where Buddhism exists or has existed (in South, Southeast, Central and East Asia); historical and contemporary aspects (including developments in 'Western' Buddhism); theoretical, practical and methodological issues; textual, linguistic, archaeological and art-historical studies; and different disciplinary approaches to the subject (e.g. Archaeology, Art History, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Comparative Religion, Law, Oriental Studies, Philosophy, Philology, Psychology, Religious Studies, Theology).
Business Source Elite
Full text for more thousands of business journals and other sources, including full text for many peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage varies.
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CDRI: Digital Resources for the Study of Religion
The CDRI database provides access to digital images of woodcuts, photographs, slides, papyri, coins, maps, postcards, manuscripts, lithographs, sermons, shape-note tune books and various forms of Christian art, architecture and iconography.
Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection
Ongoing collaborative project by the Collaborative Digitization Program, the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Historical Society creating a statewide historic newspaper database. Includes 44 newspapers dating from 1859 to 1880.
CompPile
An ongoing inventory of publications in postsecondary composition, rhetoric, ESL and technical writing: 1939–current.
Cross-Cultural Research: The Journal of Comparative Social Science
Examines topics that span societies, nations and cultures, providing strategies for the systematic testing of theories about human society and behaviour. Research reports, review articles, methodological studies, bibliographies and discussion pieces. Full text available from February 1999 to present.
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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
"This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4278 journals in the directory. Currently 1602 journals are searchable at article level. As of today
302,847 articles are included in the DOAJ service." —July 31, 2009
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EBSCOhost EJS - Electronic Journals Service
Full-text of selected journals.
Ecopsychology
This quarterly online journal explores the relationship between environmental issues and mental health and well-being.
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GPO
Index to publications of the US government. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. Coverage is from 1976.
GreenFILE
A bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)
Bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars... Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.
Human Rights Watch Publications
Selected full-text of reports on human rights violations and conditions around the world. Reports cover countries and specific issues. Coverage is 1990 to present.
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International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text
The International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance represents the most comprehensive multicultural and interdisciplinary research tool available to theater students, educators and professionals. Includes full text for 100 titles.
International Relations & Security Network
Full-text materials on international relations, area studies, international business, security and military studies, comparative studies and human rights.
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JSTOR
Available Collections: Arts & Sciences III, Arts & Sciences V, Ecology & Botany, 19th Century British Pamphlets
Full-text of journals in languages and literature; ecology and botany; and also essential titles in the fields of music, film studies, folklore, performing arts, religion and the history and study of art and architecture. There are hundreds of titles in these collections.
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MLA International Bibliography
A bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations in the language arts. Dates back to 1963 and contains over 1.7 million citations from more than 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers.
Mental Measurements Yearbook
This database contains descriptive information and critical reviews of new and revised psychological test instruments from the 9th to 15th editions of the printed Mental Measurements Yearbook. Covers more than 2,200 commercially available tests in categories such as personality, developmental, behavioral assessment, neuropsychology, achievement, intelligence and aptitude, and education.
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netLibrary
Collection of full-text electronic books.
Newspaper Source
Selected full text from 25 national and 260 regional US newspapers including the Denver Post, Greeley Tribune and Pueblo Chieftain, and transcripts from TV and radio news.
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Oxford English Dictionary Online
Provides authoritative definitions of over 500,000 words; traces the usage of words from their first recorded occurrence to the modern period through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international language sources; offers the best in etymological analysis and detailed listings of variant spellings; uses the International Phonetic Alphabet to show pronunciation.
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PsycARTICLES
Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association and Hogrefe & Huber.
PsycINFO
Contains nearly two million citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in the field of psychology. Coverage is from the 1880s. Database links to full-text in other EBSCO databases.
Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress (PILOTS) Database
Index to the worldwide scientific literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of exposure to traumatic events. Includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and government documents relevant to PTSD and other forms of traumatic stress.
PubMed
"Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals."
PubMed Central
U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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RAMBI: The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
RAND Abstracts
Database of RAND reports related to social and public policy, international policy, global security, military, terrorism and more. Some full-text online.
Regional Business News
Full text coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
Research in Ministry
Indexes and abstracts for project reports and theses from more than 50 Doctor of Ministry and Doctor of Missiology programs accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
Comprehensive sociology research database. Features more than 1,600,000 records and full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
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TopicSearch
Over 139,800 articles on current events topics like aging, crime, drugs, energy, health, human rights and world affairs, from over 4,800 sources, with 1,650 full text periodicals.
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Violence Literature Database (VioLit)
Violence-related research literature database with abstracts and reference information. Compiled by the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at University of Colorado at Boulder.
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WorldCat
Catalog of books and other materials held by libraries worldwide. Use this database to place an Interlibrary Loan for a book.
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